中国石化新闻网讯 据今日石油网2023年2月6日报道，总部位于英国的全球著名能源咨询公司伍德麦肯兹(WM)将2022年称为全球勘探领域业绩突出的一年，也是十多年来业绩最强劲的一年。
伍德麦肯兹日前发表的题为《石油和天然气勘探：2022年回顾》的报告指出，全球勘探领域通过增加低碳、低成本原油产量的优势来改善投资组合，以每桶60美元的布伦特原油价格创造了至少330亿美元的价值，实现了22%的全周期回报率。
虽然去年全球的勘探井数量不到疫情暴发前年份的一半，但伍德麦肯兹发现，去年200亿桶油当量的油气总产量与2013年至2019年的平均年产量相当。
伍德麦肯兹全球勘探研究总监朱莉·威尔逊说：“2022年是全球油气勘探领域表现突出一年，油气勘探量不错，但不太耀眼。”
威尔逊说，然而，勘探公司能够通过战略选择和专注于最好和最大的远景构造来实现极高价值。这些油气发现为勘探公司的投资组合带来了更高质量的碳氢化合物，使他们能够通过取代不太有利的石油和天然气供应来减少碳排放，同时满足世界能源需求。
威尔逊写道，去年价值最高的发现是纳米比亚一个新的深水区块的世界级发现，阿尔及利亚的资源补充，以及圭亚那和巴西的几个新深水发现，在圭亚那和巴西，最新一波盐下勘探活动终于取得了成功。
“去年圭亚那的油气平均发现量超过1.5亿桶油当量，是前十年平均发现量的两倍多。”威尔逊如是说。
2022年是圭亚那业绩辉煌的一年。圭亚那斯塔布鲁克区块的运营商埃克森美孚公司获得了9个重要发现，这是自2015年以来最好的勘探年份。根据韦斯特伍德能源公司提供的数据，埃克森美孚公司的9个发现都是具有高影响力的方向，每一个发现都超过1亿桶油当量。
2022年在斯塔布鲁克区块发现的石油资源可能超过10亿桶油当量。
李峻 编译自 今日石油网
原文如下：
2022 was standout year for exploration – WoodMac
UK-based consultancy group Wood Mackenzie has dubbed 2022 a standout year for exploration – the strongest in more than a decade.
The global exploration sector, in its bid to improve portfolios by adding lower-carbon, lower-cost advantaged barrels, created at least US$33 billion in value and achieved full-cycle returns of 22%, at US$60/barrel Brent prices, WoodMac’s ‘Oil and gas exploration: 2022 in review’ report stated.
While exploration well numbers for the year were less than half the numbers during pre-pandemic years, WoodMac found that the total volume of 20 billion barrels of oil equivalent matched the average annual volumes of 2013-2019.
“2022 was a standout year for exploration,” said Julie Wilson, Director of global exploration research at Wood Mac. “Volumes were good, but not stellar.
However, explorers were able to drive very high value through strategic selection and focusing>Wilson wrote that the highest value came from world-class discoveries in a new deepwater play in Namibia, resource additions in Algeria and several new deepwater discoveries in Guyana and Brazil, where the latest wave of pre-salt exploration finally met with success.
“The average discovery last year was over 150 million barrels of oil equivalent, more than double the average of the previous decade.”
It was a stellar year for Guyana. Operator of Guyana’s Stabroek Block – ExxonMobil – copped nine discoveries, its best exploration year since 2015. And according to Westwood Energy, all nine discoveries made by Exxon were high-impact, each amounting to more than 100 million barrels of oil equivalent.
The petroleum resources discovered at Stabroek in 2022 could be more than a billion oil-equivalent barrels.